Bondi wants bodies exhumed

12:29 AM,
Mar. 13, 2013

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi

Written by

Brent Kallestad

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi wants authorities to exhume human remains on the site of a now-defunct Panhandle reform school where an untold number of bodies were buried over a period of 60 years.

Bondi's office filed a petition Tuesday on behalf of Dr. Michael Hunter, the appointed medical examiner for the 14th District of Florida.

She is seeking a court order to exhume bodies from "Boot Hill Cemetery" and surrounding areas, where it is believed there may be unmarked graves and unaccounted bodies of boys who died. The school, formally known as the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, was ...